These comments come from an article on WND by Joseph Farah, who remarks: “Keep in mind conflict between the West and Islam virtually defines world history for the last 1,300 years. Communism is but a tiny blip of 70 years during that period. Nazism, even less. But if you take a wide view of history through conflicts – conflicts that have killed untold millions – it’s been 13 centuries of war between Islam and most of the rest of the world, not just the West.” Two Western politicians, uninfluenced by considerations of political correctness, offered these comments (whose exact sources, unfortunately, are not given): In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar , the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself a prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new revelations of Jesus,
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